[Plugin: CataBlog] Bugs

No problem for the plugin shortcode. Would be fine to keep it in mind for an update, in the meanwhile, I will manage without audio player.

Unfortunately, the permission issue prevent me to delete wp-content/uploads/catablog. I could rename it to catablog_old and created a new catablog folder and its original directories. Then I uploaded my pictures in there and regenerated the thumbnails as you explained. But my new created thumbnails directory is empty and the plugin does not recognize the pics (despite the fact that the names of the jpg are corresponding to image field in the database).

Arrghh, if I would not have such a big catalog, I would do it all manually.

Hi Zach,

Cheers for the plugin – it fits my site perfectly. The only issue I am having is with a lightbox conflict. I have two youtube embeds in my sidebar, however they always seem to float above the lightbox image. Is there a value I need to change to prevent this?

The same was happening with the navbar, but I solved this by changing the z-index values in the CSS. I am unsure of how to proceed with the side bar links.

My catablog can be found on: https://www.fishtankfestival.com/?page_id=33

Thanks!

Jeez, this is definitely turning into a big headache for you. Maybe you could export an XML backup and email it to me or post it here. If there is anything fishy about your data I might be able to spot it. Perhaps the extension isn’t part of the image field in the database, perhaps the image files don’t have their extensions…

…Other then that the only thing I could think of is that now PHP doesn’t have permission to read your uploaded photos. If you can go and change permissions recursively (on all child directories and files) on wp-content/uploads/catablog to 777 (read/write/execute for everyone) and see if that fixes your problem. If it does, bring the permissions down to 775 a (read/write/execute for owner and group, read/execute for everyone) and see if it still work by checking that changing thumbnail size works. If this is the issue I would recommend that you not leave anything on your server with permission 777, that is unsafe for a website longterm, but testing with it is ok. Instead leave permissions at 775, which is a pretty standard permission set for web content since the owner (FTP) and group (Apache, PHP) both have read/write/execute access.

Good luck, hope this finally works for you.
– Zach

Hi Zach,

Don’t want to be a pain, but are you sure that the xml export is working ? Because I get an empty file when I do so (weight is 0kb).
What I can do is a dump of the table with phpmyadmin if you want.

Further I would love to be able to change the permission of the folder to 777 and, off course, I tried that yesterday when I saw that I could not delete the folder, but again it won’t let me do so. At least not with my FTP client.

@benfriedman: At a look at your website and it looks really good. Me jealous ??

benfriedman,

the lightbox covers over the embedded video perfectly in safari, firefox and chrome for mac. didn’t check it yet on windows computers. do you have more specific browser and operating system info so i know how to reproduce this bug. Thanks

– Zach

kristel_ttm,

The export feature works for me. I have a few questions now:
– do you see items in your list view? (click the main icon in admin panel)
– are you sure you are editing the right table in phpMyAdmin?
– i would recommend creating an xml file with below format out of your csv values and importing it through the software

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<catablog_items date="2010-10-12" time="16:20:49">

	<item>
		<id>1</id>
		<order>0</order>
		<image><![CDATA[theo-pup-1286494040.jpg]]></image>
		<title><![CDATA[Theo Pup]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.theo-puppy.com]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[this is a description]]></description>
		<tags><![CDATA[]]></tags>
		<price><![CDATA[10]]></price>
		<product_code><![CDATA[SKU#45667]]></product_code>
	</item>

	<item>
		<id>2</id>
		<order>0</order>
		<image><![CDATA[photo-1286494070.jpg]]></image>
		<title><![CDATA[A Photo]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[]]>https://www.somelink.org</link>
		<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
		<tags><![CDATA[]]></tags>
		<price><![CDATA[5]]></price>
		<product_code><![CDATA[SKU#99876]]></product_code>
	</item>

</catablog_items>

Hope that helps!

Hi Zach,

I am running Windows 7 and the problem occurs in Chrome and IE. There is no issue on Firefox.

@kristel_ttm: Thank you!!

Thanks,
Ben

benfriedman,

My guess is it is a plugin rendering issue or a z-index issue. I read here that you can set your wmode to opaque for flash elements to respect the z-index of other HTML elements and overlays. This is a bug specific to windows and how flash uses video hardware for graphic acceleration. I would also probably bump up the z-index of the built in CSS classes for #catablog-curtain and #catablog-lightbox which by default are set to 3000.

Yes, I see the items in list view and in the page with the [catablog] shortcode so the import was successful.

If I have time tonight I will try to create a XML of the CSV file like you suggested, but once again, the items are showing so the import of the data is not the problem.

The only thing I am missing is the image (on the list view too). I can only think that it has to do with the wp-content/uploads/catablog/originals directory being not readable/writable. Is there a way for me to change the permissions in another manner than via the FTP client ?

kristel_ttm

It does sound like your data is in the right table, if I was you I would be curious what the image source is of the row thumbnails on the page you put [catablog] on. If you right click the broken image icon you should be able to choose “Open Image” in a new window and see the url, perhaps their is a problem with it. look for missing extension, too many slashes, bad domain, etc. Try and modify the url so you can see the original images you uploaded with FTP.

Yes, there is a much better way to connect if your server is a *nix (linux, unix, osx) computer. SSH. SSH ideally gives you access to the command line, if you are not familiar or comfortable with using a *nix prompt I would recommend a book such as the Linux Pocket Guide. A command know as chmod and chown let you change file permission and ownership, something you will have to look into more on your own.

Perhaps your web service’s control panel has a better way for you to manage files and folders with permissions. You could also get in touch with them and see what they recommend for managing permissions on files in your public html directory.

Good luck.

I want to start to wind this thread down. It has served us well, but at this point it has gotten very long and unorganized. I have set up 3 new topics for CataBlog for support, bugs and features requests. Also please feel free to start your own topics and rate Catablog at the www.ads-software.com page

Hi Zach,

I set the flash elements to Opaque and it was cured.

Thanks for your help!